~Luna POV~
I skipped along the newly revealed corridor behind the portrait of Rowena Ravenclaw humming to myself to make sure that the pesterbring medowns, that are often found in long forgotten areas, do not bring down my good mood. I had friends and I was asked to help make people's lives better. Nothing could bring me down.
I reached the end of the corridor which ended in a door that after going through I found that it came out behind the statue of Ravenclaw. I easily was able to get through the crowded common room and into my dorm. Taking my bag of soaps, dressing gown, night clothes, and a towel into the attached shower and bathroom and got ready for bed. When I had finished getting ready for bed I made a beeline from the bathroom to my bed and flopped down.
Taking my wand from behind my ear I closed my dark blue curtains curtains. The curtains, as I said are dark blue, they also had bronze tassels that were to make sure your curtains stayed shut, and also bronze eagles with their wings spread in flight. After the curtains were closed I fastened the tassels and then crawled under the large and fluffy bronze comforter, it had navy blue stars and moons sewn in sporadically over it. The bed was warm and toasty, like when it feels when you know you have to drag yourself out of it, and smelled of chamomile and lavender. I tucked my wand under my pillow that was made of the fur shed by baby unicorns and was as silver as an adult unicorn. I snuggled deeper into my bed and fell asleep.
Waking at 7:30 in the morning wide-eyed and bushy-tailed, that is a really funny saying, I went through my morning routine. After magically braiding my hair and making sure I was ready for my morninrg classes I headed down the steps and through the common room to go down to breakfast. After breakfast I had charms for an hour and a half, followed by transfiguration and DADA both were also an hour and a half. After lunch I had potions for 3 hours. Dinner was at six and then we had our first real meeting to plan our course of action.
Once I was in the great hall I helped myself to some bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs, milk, and buttered toast. it had taken me five minutes to get from Ravenclaw tower to the Great Hall and it would only take five to get to the charms classroom. I finished, savoring my food but not taking forever to eat and had a few minutes to read the first chapter in my charms book.
Leaving with plenty of time to drift to class I was ahead because most students were still in the great hall. I pointed a few first years that were lost in the right direction before entering the charms classroom. Professor Flitwick had not arrived and only Stacey Bradshaw of Slytherin was present.
I sat down in the front of the class on the left side of the room as Stacey had taken the right thus marking the house sides for this lesson. Sitting in my chosen seat I pulled out my transfiguration book and began reviewing the first chapter as I waited for the rest of the class to file in. At exactly 8 the last Slytherin, Joseph Paulsen, came running in and sat next to Stacey who had saved the seat for him. They shared a whispered conversation about something as the professor set up for the day's lesson.
The first day of class was generally boring and this was no different as we practiced spells from the previous three years. I quickly flew through each assigned spell to the Professor's satisfaction and we still had fifteen minutes left until the end of class so I finished reading the first chapter in the transfiguration book. When I was done with that there was still a few minutes left. Instead of starting on my DADA book I took out my potions book and read the directions for the potion we would most likely be making later that day. I had heard Cho Chang and Mariatta Edgecomb talking about reading the whole DADA class and Samual Snapper and Chelsea Grey in third year complained about the same thing.
At 9:30 Professor Flitwick assigned homework, a two foot essay on what we expected from this year and a reflection on how far we have come, and dismissed us and we Ravenclaws trudged up two flights of stairs to transfiguration.
Unlike in charms transfiguration was mixed and I saw my long time friend Ginny Weasley waving from the front of the room. I smiled at her and sat down. All of the Gryffindors had come in already, they we just a few corridors away in DADA, so it was only a few Ravenclaws that barely made it to class on time.
I was glad I read ahead because Professor McGonagall began lecturing us on animal to animal transfiguration after a quick review. I took several pages of notes, including diagrams and I would copy them later and share them with Ginny. She would also do the same with her notes. This gave us not only another explanation the day's lesson but also ensured that we would not miss anything as we sometimes left things out that we did not find important. Because it was a theory class I did not have time to do any reading, which was ok I had lunch and I was almost done with my reading ahead for potions. After collecting our summer work and giving us our new assignment, one foot describing the intricacies of transfiguring a ferret into a weasel. I sighed knowing that this may not mater because by the next class I would likley have been excused.
"You know you can still go to classes if you like." Ginny said
"You are right, I did not think of that." I said before she looked at her watch and squealed, she had to be at green house 7 for herbology in under 2 minutes.
I shook my heaad before hurrying to my next class, the class of dread. I was the last one in the room so I ended up sitting in the back alone, hich didn't phase me. As I sat down the door snapped shut.
"Hem, hem. Good morning class." The professorsaid from the office balcony. Having heard that she was persistent the whole class responded in unison to which she smiled.
She said the same as she had at the welcome feast, though not in as many words and I could not role my eyes. Even being biten by a swamp nargle could not excuse this toad and her behavior. After instructing us to put away our wands and take out our books she set us to reading the book. I had not looked at it beyond the shop in Diagon Alley because I knew it was a joke as before it was assigned it was considered little more than fiction.
The simplistic text and child like explinations meant that I had finished reading in under 20 minues, as had most of the class. Of course only a select few Slyterins even cracked the book. Not wanting to draw attention to myself I continued reading, barely holding in my snickers at some of the silly things tht the author claimed. Even a muggleborn would be able to tell that this book was not worth it's weight in gold, and it was a heavy and expensive book too.
By the time class finished I had read most of the book. She then gave us a three foot long summary on the first chapter to be handed in during our next class. Yeah that wasn't happening. I thought to myself, unusal as it was for me, or any Ravenclaw, I knew if I did the assignment I would end up in detention and I did not want that.
After a ten minute walk, mostly due to my reading anything I may need for the potions class I had after lunch. I ate slowly, as I had an hour and it only took 2 minutes tops to get from the Great Hall to the potions class. When I was done I went to get a breah of fresh air and was joined by Ginny.
"so how was DADA?" She asked
"I would rather have Lockhear back." I said simply from behind my copy of the Quibbler
Ginny laughed shaking her red hair out of the pony tail she had it in for herbology.
After a short conversation we both headed to poitions. Taking a spot in the middle of the room we waited for Professor Snape to come in and tell us what to do. We didn't have to wait long and we got started. We brewed a pepper-up potion and on it's complition Snape relunctly gave us each 10 points and we were instructed to put the remaing potion into vials, that he gave us, and bring it up to the hospital wing. If there was one potion the school could never have enough of it was the Pepper-Up potion and ours came out perfectly. Running up to our dorms, Me waiting outside by the fat lady and Ginny next to Ravenclaws hidden door, we dropped off our school books and headed outside to savor the last of the sun for the day before heading in for dinner.
~Ginny~
I followed Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Neville down the hall behind the portrait of Godric Gryffindor yawning the whole time and stumbling into Harry's back who helped me. I was proud of myself that I did not squeal or spontenously combust or something, though my face did take on a shade of red unique to the Weasley clan.
Once we came out of the passage which was hidden by a statue of Godric Gryfiindor proudly displaying his famous sword, I went strait to bed, leaning heavily on Hermione as we walked up the spiral staircase to the girls dorm. I stripped down to just her under garments, which provided coverage but also a lazy way out of not changing into pjs as well. I then collapsed into my bed, pulling the gold chord to relaease the scarlet curtains. I barely managed to cover myself in my heavy blankets and quickly fell asleep.
The next morning I found myself rushing to get ready and had managed to make it to the great hall in time to grab a bagel already smothered in strawberry cream cheese and rush up five flights of stairs and twisting corridors to skid to a stop outside the DADA classroom. Gulping down my last bite of bagel I walked into the room and before I had a chance to sit down the door snapped behind me.
"5 points from Gryffindor for being tardy. I expect you in your seat and prepared for your lesson before I close the door. Especially when class is the first one of the day. Take a seat Miss. Weasley." The pink toad said in her fake voice.
Not wanting to get in trouble I did as I was told. She then told us all to open our books and read the first chapter. It took everything I had to not fall asleep on the first word, and it ended up taking the entire period for me to get trough the first chapter. The the little pink thing assigned a 3 foot summary of the chapter. I could summarize it in a single word, stupid.
Grumbling I made my way to transfiguration and saved a seat for Luna. This class I actually enjoyed and at the end we were assigned an essay on the theory and intricacies of transfiguring a ferret into a weasel. That is when I heard Luna sigh.
"You know you can still go to classes if you like." I said
"You are right, I did not think of that." She responded looking down at her watch.
I followed her example and nearly screamed, I was running late again. I had less than two minutes to make it to green house seven for herbology. Panting from running so much I made it with seconds to spare. I took a spot next to Kyle Langley, a fellow Gryffindor, and across from Colin Creevey, also a Gryffindor. I was at the end of the table so there was no one next to me.
"Welcome to Green House #7 everyone, today we are going to be collecting spores from the Lunar Fungi. Now before we get started what can you tell me about it?" Professor Sprout asked
I raised my hand, "Yes Miss. Weasley."
"The lunar Fungi looks like a mushroom but is more closely related to the moss family, more specifcally a type of moss found in the Southern United States called Spanish Moss. Also it is a key ingriedient in the Wolfsbane potion and while a silvery white on a blue moon it will glow a soft blue color." I explained.
"Correct, 10 points for Gryffindor."
She explained how you needed the spores collected on the full moon for a wolfsbane potion but it can be used in cleaning, skin, and air care products if harvested at any other time. She also explained that because of the rarity of blue moons no one knew if the properties changed if harvested then, it was after all only a recent discovery.
I put my hair up after the Professor showed us how to extract the spores without hurting the plant. I was just getting my third specimen when she called an end to the class.
"For homework I want you to create a diagram showing and labeling a Lunar Fungi and 6 inch essay on the proper way to extract the spores.
I followed the rest of the class, talking to Colin, up to the great hall and had a large lunch to make up for the small breakfast. After I was done I joined Luna out side.
"so how was DADA?" I asked her
"I would rather have Lockhear back." she said simply from behind her copy of the Quibbler
I laughed shaking her red hair out of the pony tail I had it in for herbology.
After a short conversation we both headed to poitions. Taking a spot in the middle of the room we waited for Professor Snape to come in and tell us what to do. We didn't have to wait long and we got started. We brewed a pepper-up potion and on it's complition Snape relunctly gave us each 10 points and we were instructed to put the remaing potion into vials, that he gave us, and bring it up to the hospital wing. If there was one potion the school could never have enough of it was the Pepper-Up potion and ours came out perfectly. Running up to our dorms, Luna waiting outside by the fat lady and myself next to Ravenclaws hidden door, we dropped off our school books and headed outside to savor the last of the sun for the day before heading in for dinner.
AN:
Sorry about the long wait, I have had writers block and real life issues as well. I hope this chapter is a good peace offering so forgive me maybe :D